Lindsey McCarthy

Professional Title: Research Fellow
Institution: Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University
Position: Associate Member

Bio

Lindsey is a Research Fellow in the field of housing studies. She is particularly interested in subjective experiences of housing and ‘home’, especially amongst more marginalised groups and those living in inadequate accommodation. Her PhD research, completed in 2015, focused on the experiences of homeless women: what ‘home’ means to women who become homeless; how a loss of home impacts on their identities; and how women construct their identities within and beyond their homelessness.

Lindsey has experience in a range of qualitative research techniques – in-depth interviews, focus groups, and visual methods – used in a variety of fieldwork settings, but particularly in engaging with disadvantaged and hard-to-reach groups. Lindsey is interested in more inclusive methods which allow participants greater autonomy over the research process – her PhD employed participant-led photography and ‘photo-elicitation’.